I think we'll let him go if it's 50m.
but if we come.out if it with Sterling gone but get Firmino and Clyne and still have 10m to spend then it's hard to say we haven't made ourselves better
Wonder if the Firmino and Clyne deals are dependent on Sterling leaving.
I think it's a case of we have transfers lined up with and without Sterling staying, so we're waiting on City's ideal bid before we go through with deals in order or priority. I think Clyne and Firmino are probably the big targets, but the demands of their respective clubs and whether we bow down to them, could be something we have to consider as dependent on Sterling's move going through.
What has Ayre said?
How many clubs do though, publicly? I'm not defending Ayre, but we don't know what's been said between clubs, and I can't remember the last time a club came out over a big transfer and said, "we want X amount".
Nothing's been said publicly. Ayre did his usual off the record briefing to his favoured coterie of hacks, and left them to run with it. He thinks it's clever. You should either do it the old Peter Robinson way and not say anything at all, or you should make sure what you say to your mates in the media is much less pliable in terms of interpretation.
And we're doing this at a time when we're about to land a top 10 in the world transfer fee for a player who has just a chance of being a top 10 in the world type?
I don't know whether Ayre is good or not but I'm finding it hard to be positive about losing a player like Sterling.
This is not unlike Everton losing Rooney.
I don't know whether Ayre is good or not but I'm finding it hard to be positive about losing a player like Sterling.
This is not unlike Everton losing Rooney.
In every big transfer saga the media will drop a ceiling figure in which is usually there or there abouts, it's not hard, most fans would have told you from the off what was acceptable for Sterling when this all kicked off. I don't know what's gone on behind the scenes, but it appears fairly common practice for the media to put a fee out there, either through manipulation by the respective clubs, or sheer conjecture.
If we get £50m it's good *business*, I'd argue the toss more over whether we should be selling him in the first place.
It's not Man City's fault that we have to pay compensation on the little twat
It's not really. Sterling is 'homegrown' but he's not really homegrown.